Publish or Perish: The plague of academia
@ February 22, 2010 # One Comment
Over the last couple of weeks, there has been some discussion online about the worth of peer review. Is it valuable, or is it antiquated? As an Assistant Professor who goes up for tenure next fall, allow me to contribute my two cents.
I guess the real question behind this whole publish or perish (which leads [...]
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Sorry, Barack, but teachers aren’t the saviors you think they are . . .
@ July 16, 2008 # 21 Comments
Let me start off by saying I don’t think anyone who reads this really cares or should care what my political leanings are. But to be fair, I’ll state that I am a registered Republican who probably needs to re-register as a Libertarian. Yes, I am a conservative. My family has always had something to [...]
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iPhone? Not in this lifetime . . .
@ July 2, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I just don’t get it. I don’t get what all the hoopla is about this new iPhone. Yeah, it has cool features, but so does every other piece of technology out there. I just think it’s kind of funny all the hoopla out there surrounding it. Do you know why? [...]
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Responding to David Wiley
@ December 30, 2005 # 2 Comments
I responded today to a post by David Wiley’s blog. He posted an interesting review about a book on learning styles research–which I have a problem with. I posted a comment outlining how I feel. It will be fun to watch what happens here. This is quite a polarizing topic. To me, it seems to [...]
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Am I the only one who hates technology (at times)?
@ December 5, 2005 # No Comment Yet
If you’ve ever been here before, you notice things look different. And why? Yep, because I wasn’t paying attention and deleted my blog database. Good for me, huh? Yep, I’m all over that.
So I’m starting over.
Stay tuned for more later.
jhc
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